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317/ September 12, 2011 - Laws of Science: Diffusion

Characterized by the spread of particles from an area of higher concentration to that of a lower concentration. Particles spreading farther apart. We hold the ability for widespread dispersal; we learn how to expand.

Let us start with a closed space. For example, your car— and the walks to the parking lot and the marco-polo hide-and-seeking before we find it (W plate, silver, check). We walk on gravel, unsteady, and once I fell into your arms because I tripped. The first time you brought me home, I didn’t tell you, but I wondered if that moment had the potential to become routine.

As time increases, so does space. A table in a corner of a coffee shop. A room under the stairs— yours— and the joke I just had to make. Once, I got a whiteboard marker and swept your hair away from your forehead, left a lightning bolt there. 

And time transforms space; your room is now bigger than a room. You cleared closet space for me. You emptied a shelf for my toiletries. You bought a new book shelf, you changed the color of your sheets, and in the mornings you heated bathwater before you shook me away from sleep.

I don’t understand the specifics of this expansion: how, in time, my heart grew large enough to fit you in. I blame the blue jacket, the Beatles collection and that one Third Eye Blind song we’ve turned into 12th Street memory. All these things, self-propelled in their flux, drifting in spaces we have yet to understand, places we have yet to introduce to touch.

I like how I first loved you in secret: from a small, secluded space, bottled like perfume, until it spread and filled this room.

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